In his first season with the Indiana Pacers, guard Victor Oladipo was the recipient of the Most Improved Player award for the 2017-18 season, which he accepted Monday night at the second annual awards show held in Santa Monica, California.
It was clear that he would win the award, but how about this: Oladipo was two first-place votes shy from being the unanimous winner. He …
Victor Oladipo, the prohibitive favorite for the NBA’s Most Improved Player for the 2017-18 season, plans to attend the second annual NBA Awards Show Monday night, league sources told VigilantSports.com.
Oladipo is one of three finalists for the award, along with Houston’s Clint Cappella, and Brooklyn’s Spencer Dinwiddie. It would be a complete stunner if Oladipo, who was already voted Third Team All-NBA and All-Defensive …
Thursday was memorable for Pacers forward Thad Young. He turned 30 years old, so appropriately he spent the day on a yacht down in South Beach with those close to him.
Over the next week, however, Young has an important decision to make. A personal decision, a decision that he’s earned. Thad has a player option due by next Friday (June 29). If he exercises …
Kevin Pritchard continues to seek toughness. He’s focused on adding guys with grit, with fight, and he wants a roster full of players who will bring it all year round.
Late in the second round with several notable names already off the board, including Ohio State’s Keita Bates-Diop just two spots earlier, the Pacers used the 50th overall pick to add Missouri State forward Alize …
The Pacers got their man with the 23rd overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, taking point guard Aaron Holiday out of UCLA. The 6-foot-1 guard not only led the PAC-12 in scoring (20.3 ppg), but he also was named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team.
He’s a two-way player, something the Pacers really liked about him.
About 30 minutes after walking across the stage at the …
The Pacers have found their future point guard. For the second consecutive year, the Pacers used their first-round pick to select a UCLA Bruin, the latest being point guard Aaron Holiday.
Holiday — who became the first Bruin player to lead the Pac-12 in scoring since Reggie Miller (1986) — joins fellow Bruins Darren Collison, T.J. Leaf, and Ike Anigbogu in Indy.
The name may …
The Pacers brought in a total of 29 players over a two-week period ahead of the 2018 NBA Draft, set for Thursday, June 21 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN.
The process of bringing players in for pre-draft workouts began later than normal for the Pacers, not until June 7th. Team evaluators spent several weeks on the west coast as agencies held pro days to …
Final preparations are underway at the St. Vincent Center in downtown Indianapolis as a dozen or so in player evaluation push to gather additional intel on players and who teams ahead of the Pacers may draft.
After going 48-34 and losing a four-way tiebreaker to decide the draft order, the Pacers will select 23rd and 50th overall in the 2018 NBA Draft, which will be …